You Can Always Build

Yesterday, we reflected on the tracks left behind by pioneers. These kinds of tracks are inspiring to reflect on because they remind us of the sacrifices made by those who came before us to lay the foundation we’ve been blessed to build upon.

However, the greatest mark left by pioneers are not the tracks in and of themselves. Rather the greatest marks are the lives and communities founded by their sacrifice so the generations that followed could live, and build, and improve upon them.

In other words, if you can’t pioneer, you can always build and improve on the existing foundations.

“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.” (1 Corinthians 3:6–15, ESV)

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Scott is a writer and teacher living in North Idaho. He loves teaching the Great Books, writing and blogging, and collecting more books than he’ll ever read in a lifetime. You can subscribe to the tribe and follow him on Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus.